General Information

Our NGO organisation KISAM Mothers and Youth in the World meets on a daily basis, people from around the world, especially mothers, children and youth, who have come to Sweden as asylum seekers and as immigrants.

We started our NGO 2016 as an art project and we have grown to a movement for change. Due to the changes in society, our organisation has as well changed to more work with issues of democracy, equality and human right.

We work in 4 segregated areas in the region of Östergötland (East Sweden), where most families have come from other regions of the world. We have established our own method, KISAM-method in which we work with arts as a tool for learning and ways of telling your story, empowerment and experience based learning.

We work specially with mothers since they have a key role in the children's future. We give children and youth “tools for live”in order for them to become their very best and not to choose the criminal path.

We educate youth as leaders and as well employ youth leaders in our NGO as positive role models for many.

We work with giving mothers and youth the tools to be a voice in the Swedish society and bring forward important issues and knowledge to politicians of the situation of migrants, of structural hindrances as well suggestions for change.

We are the voice of people who otherwise are seldom being heard.

Our activities are in 4 segregated areas where people with mainly immigrant background live, there is poverty (where 80% of the families with children live under “relative poverty”), high unemployment, 1 out of 3 youth finish their primary school and there is aggressive recruiting of children to criminal gangs.